Word: headway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising fears of recession show that the Administration is at last making headway in its difficult fight against inflationary psychology. All year, Nixon's economic lieutenants have been trying to create a degree of uncertainty in the minds of businessmen, labor and consumers about the prospect for continued prosperity. Many experts find the present outlook no cause for alarm. Arthur Okun, the former head of the Council of Economic Advisers, calls the chance of either a recession or a continued boom "a long shot." By his handicapping, the Government stands a 50% chance of bringing the inflation rate down...
...disruption leads to attitudes and policies which do make more difficult the lives of the most dispossessed element in the country. While student activism has contributed to public disaffection with the war, it has not done much to change the domestic situation. Despite the efforts of Progressive Labor, little headway has been made in securing support for radical causes among workers. This may change and, if it does, student potential for initiating effective action on domestic issues will greatly improve. However, as things now stand, those who participate in violent action against the university do not directly suffer from...
DESPITE these hearings--and the innumerable Congressional Record pages which individual members of Congress filled with attacks on student militants--virtually none of the "anti-riot" bill introduced this session have yet made much headway in Congress...
...picketers called the Harvard University Strike Group, released a statement after the meeting saying that they had "made no headway." "Bennett maintained the neutrality and innocence of Harvard investment procedures; the picket delegation maintained the immorality and bankruptcy of those procedures," the statement said...
...think we made headway," Bennett said last night. "there was a better understanding of our respective views," he added. Bennett said that he would be glad to meet with the Strike Group again for further discussion...